Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Wed 9 Apr - Sat 17 May 2025
Wed 30 Apr 2025 - Fri 13 Feb 2026
The Silence of Snow: The Life of Patrick Hamilton
Friday 25 - Saturday 26 April 2025
Mark Farrelly (Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope, Howerd's End, Jarman) presents his riveting, kinetic solo show portraying one of the great English writers of the inter-war years. Patrick Hamilton was a dazzling success in his twenties, producin...
The Trial of Agatha Christie
Friday 25 - Saturday 26 April 2025
"My name is Aphrodite the First, and tonight you are going to help me solve a mystery." Dame Agatha Christie is the best-selling novelist of all time. Famed for her murder-mystery novels, she was a pioneer in the world of crime fiction. ...
An Evening with Ricky Tomlinson
Friday 25 April 2025
In conversation about his life and career, with BBC Radio Merseyside presenter and established singer and entertainer Asa Murphy, Eric "Ricky" Tomlinson is an English actor (and former plasterer) best known for his television roles as Bobby...
NT Connections 2025 Day 2
Friday 25 April 2025
Greater Manchester?s youth theatres, schools and colleges perform here at HOME in the National Theatre?s Connections festival, a celebration of young people, theatre-making and the importance of access to the arts. Day two of this year?s fe...
Plastic Cabaret - THAT'S HOT
Friday 25 April 2025
Thats Hot A Y2K drag extravaganza Velour flip phones and iconic looks Saturday at 730 PM at AREA Get your tickets now...
The TIME Exchange Jam
Friday 25 April 2025
A club night for dancers and creatives with non-stop vibes from some of Manchester's best DJs. Expect an unforgettable night of music, dance and art...
Lifelines - The LS Lowry Lecture by Jeanette Winterson
Saturday 26 April 2025
Lowry's 25th anniversary sees the return of the annual LS Lowry Lecture and for 2025 renowned writer Jeanette Winterson will provide a very personal perspective on Lowry's way into his world and ours, which he described as having 'a pri...
Candlelight - Rings & Dragons
Saturday 26 April 2025
Discover the beautiful soundtracks of fantasy films performed by a string quartet under the gentle glow of candlelight at this multi-sensory musical experience in an awe-inspiring location. Expect to hear music from Rings of Power, The Lo...
Neon Brush - Paint in the Dark Experience
Saturday 26 April 2025
A painting workshop in a unique retro-futuristic atmosphere. Immerse yourself in a fluorescent neon-lit setting to create your own work of art. Brush in one hand, glass in the other (with or without alcohol), unleash your inner artist! N...
Big Mad Andy's Peep Show Quiz
Saturday 26 April 2025
Peep Show heads. This one is for you! Liam Noble, AKA Big Mad Andy has stocked up on Breakfast Room Green and is ready to bring you the ultimate quiz on one of Britain's favourite sitcoms, Peep Show! Famed for his emotionally unstable yet...
Candlelight - Best of Ridley Scott
Saturday 26 April 2025
Discover the music from Ridley Scott's film performed under the gentle glow of candlelight by a string quartet in this awe-inspiring location. ...
The Ultimate Disney Party
Saturday 26 April 2025
Step into a world of Disney magic and nostalgia at this unofficial clubbing party from Like It. Love It. Sing along to your favorite Disney hits, enjoy spectacular live performances, and sip on themed cocktails in a fun and vibrant atmosphe...
NT Connections 2025 Day 3
Saturday 26 April 2025
Day Three of this year?s festival features Stockport Garrick?s Version of Normalised by Amanda Verlaque and HOME Young Company?s version of Ravers by Rikki Beadle-Blair. RaversA rag-tag group of self-described ?neeks? (nerds and geeks) gath...
Hamlet Hail to the Thief
Sunday 27 April - Sunday 18 May 2025
A frenetic adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet haunted by Radiohead's Hail to the Thief. Shakespeare's great tragedy and Radiohead's seminal album collide for a feverish experience that fuses theatre, music, and movement. In this frenetic di...
Life drawing with Leia
Sunday 27 April 2025
A spring & shabari themed life drawing class with @leia_inrope, featuring flowers and self ties...
Death of a Salesman
Tuesday 29 April - Saturday 3 May 2025
One of the greatest plays of the twentieth century, Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman explodes onto the stage in this fresh new production led by acclaimed actor David Hayman (Sid and Nancy, Dad's Army). This timeless, powerful story tak...
Gods of Salford
Tuesday 29 - Wednesday 30 April 2025
In their 25th year, Lowry celebrate the trailblazers, dream chasers and change makers who have been part of our story so far and will undoubtedly shape our future, the inspirational young people in our city. GODS OF SALFORD is a Lowry Comm...
North By NorthWest
Tuesday 29 April - Saturday 10 May 2025
It would be strange, would it not, if, in a city of seven million people, one man were never mistaken for another... But that is exactly what happens to Roger Thornhill, reluctant hero of North by Northwest, when a mistimed phone call to hi...
Little Gem
Tuesday 29 April - Sunday 4 May 2025
An Altrincham Garrick production of Elaine Murphy's multi-award winning play. Love, sex, birth, death and salsa classes. Three generations of Irish women. One extraordinary year. Happy-go-lucky Amber, fresh out of school, is high on life, d...
XS Malarkey with Lucy Pearman
Tuesday 29 April 2025
Since 1997 XS Malarkey has been a Manchester institution, with compere Toby Hadoke bringing you the very best comedians at the lowest prices. A minimum of just ?3 for members and ?6 for normal people- we keep tickets as low as possible to k...
Jason Manford
Wednesday 30 April 2025
Jason Manford is back with his brand-new live show, A Manford All Seasons. The Manchester comedian has been busy since his last smash-hit stand up show but fans of his Absolute Radio show will know this nationally acclaimed comedian hasn't...
Vignettes - Letters to the NHS
Wednesday 30 April - Sunday 4 May 2025
Presented by HER Productions, Vignettes is an evening of six short plays by established and emerging female-identifying Manchester-based playwrights, inspired by whatever they choose. Vignettes returns in 2025 with a very special 'Lette...
Behind the Scenes Tours
Wednesday 30 April 2025 - Wednesday 24 June 2026
Enjoy a tour of Stockport's magnificent 1932 Art Deco Super Cinema and Variety Theatre. Many of the greatest stage and screen stars of yesteryear and the modern day have appeared in person on stage or on the giant silver screen at The Plaza...
Julian Clary
Thursday 1 May 2025
Julian Clary, renowned homosexual and national trinket, is fixing to saddle up and head on out for his 2024 UK tour. "Yes, it has a Western theme," the old buckaroo confirms, sipping Bourbon from a pint tankard. "It was only a matter of tim...
An Audience With Mick Miller
Thursday 1 May 2025
Mick Miller is a comedy legend who first came to fame on ITV's "New Faces". Having won his heat, the Liverpudlian started getting more theatre work and that led to the TV producer, Johnnie Hamp selecting him to become a regular on the hit ...
Imaginary Friends
Thursday 1 - Saturday 3 May 2025
Welcome to the warped mirror world of Imaginary Friends, the new solo show by award-winning writer-performer Daniel Bye, exploring everything from grief, morality and the end of the world, to authenticity in the contemporary media landscape...
Hedda Gabler
Thursday 1 - Saturday 3 May 2025
By Henrik Ibsen, version by Patrick MarberDirected by Sean Aydon Just married. Bored already. Hedda longs to be free... This is the story of a woman so unhappy, she'll set the world on fire just to watch it burn. Ibsen's masterpiece is re-i...
Alcotraz Prison Cocktail Bar
Thursday 1 May - Monday 1 December 2025
This is the immersive cocktail bar behind bars, where the serving inmates are your bartenders, the guards are crooked and you become a part of the story. Once convicted, inmates are taken into an exciting world of mischief as they are fi...
Torvill & Dean
Friday 2 - Sunday 4 May 2025
World-renowned figure skating duo Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, best known as simply Torvill & Dean, are world-famous figure skaters and former British, World, European and Olympic champions. In 2024, they announced their retirement ...
The Baddies
Friday 2 - Sunday 4 May 2025
Based on the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler and presented by Freckle Productions & The Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh. Meet the very worst Baddies in the world! Don't you dare to come too close to a witch, a troll and an ancient...
Walk Right Back - The Everly Brothers Story
Friday 2 May 2025
After phenomenal sell out tours, Walk Right Back is... BACK! From the Producers of That'll be the Day, the show tells the story of the most successful duo of all time - The Everly Brothers. Featuring hits such as Bye Bye Love, All I Have To...
An Evening With Crissy Rock - From Bedlam To Benidorm
Friday 2 May 2025
Best known for appearing on TV shows such as Benidorm, I'm A Celebrity and Celebrity Masterchef, Crissy Rock is better known to her fans as one of the most outstanding and outrageous stand up comedians of her generation. To celebrate over 3...
Remythed
Friday 2 - Saturday 3 May 2025
The debut show of Bet'n Lev Theatre, Remythed takes myths and legends, reshapes and retells them. Stories in ways you've never seen them before; full of insight, dreams and wisdom that'll leave you joyfully questioning every story you've e...
Oracle - A New Writing Anthology
Friday 2 May 2025
Enjoy seven short scripts from up-and-coming new writers, from the politically poignant to the utterly nonsensical. 'Oracle' follows radical, queer, groundbreaking Quantum Egg Theatre's pioneer anthology night, 'Algorithm', with another gen...
Andy Bell (Erasure)
Saturday 3 May 2025
Erasure's Andy Bell has announced a tour to support his new solo album, Ten Crowns. The shows will feature songs from the new album and favourites from Andy's solo catalogue alongside plenty of Erasure hits, and will see Andy performing wit...
Richard Herring
Saturday 3 May 2025
In 2021 Richard Herring went to his GP to find out why his right ball seemed to be growing bigger. It turned out that he had testicular cancer and one month later he was lying in hospital waiting to have his murderous gonad removed. Would h...
Brian Bilston & Henry Normal
Saturday 3 May 2025
Brian Bilston has been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter's unofficial Poet Laureate; with over 400,000 followers on social media, Brian has become truly beloved by the online community. He has published several collections of po...
The Real Ken Dodd: The Man I Loved (12A)
Saturday 3 May 2025
Star-studded Exclusive Documentary on the private and public life of Sir Ken Dodd featuring thoughts from his private notebooks - "Happiness is a frame of mind" THE REAL KEN DODD - The Man I Loved is an exclusive feature documentary film wh...
The Bollywood Big One
Sunday 4 May 2025
The biggest Bollywood stage show to take place across the globe, The Bollywood Big One will unite the creme of Bollywood superstardom on one stage. Bollywood royalty and silver screen heavyweight, Salman Khan, will join an ensemble of veter...
Nick Mohammed is Mr. Swallow
Sunday 4 May - Wednesday 15 October 2025
After a sell-out 2023 UK tour and extended run in London's West End, Taskmaster loser Nick Mohammed returns as his critically acclaimed alter-ego Mr. Swallow with a brand new show. Show Pony has been described by Mr. Swallow as "payback ...
Curious Investigators
Sunday 4 May 2025
Curious Investigators from One Tenth Human is a cracking adventure created in collaboration with engineering experts from Lancaster University: a delightfully surprising, highly visual show for 3-7-year-olds and their grown-ups. Scribble an...
Strange, but True Crime with Jennifer Rees
Monday 5 May 2025
Join us for a stranger than fiction night of true crime with ex-forensics lecturer Jennifer Rees who explores the world's most shocking and unbelievable cases. Jennifer's previous theatre tour, The Psychology of Serial Killers, was a huge h...
Aakash Odedra Company - Songs of the Bulbul
Tuesday 6 May 2025
Leicester's award-winning international dance company Aakash Odedra unites with musical greats, Abi Sampa, Sarthak Kalyani, Rushil Ranjan and forty of Manchester Camerata's musicians for a unique live orchestral performance of Songs ...
Nick Mohammed is Mr. Swallow
Tuesday 6 - Saturday 31 May 2025
After a sell-out 2023 UK tour and extended run in London's West End, Taskmaster loser Nick Mohammed returns as his critically acclaimed alter-ego Mr. Swallow with a brand new show. Show Pony has been described by Mr. Swallow as "payback ...
A Night at The Oscars - A Musical Revue
Tuesday 6 - Sunday 11 May 2025
Every year Hollywood pats itself on the back and celebrates its best films, best performers and best songs! A Night at the Oscars tells the story of the Golden Age of Hollywood through song, dance and stories! Enjoy the fabulous music of Ge...
